My contacts were deleted? help

does anyone know how to retrieve lost contacts? i backed them up on my computer then did a software upgrade and when i finsihed the update all of my contacts were erased and cannot be found on my computer, but my email and text messages were kept. Any Ideas?

contacts are not part of the iPhone backup. Contacts are meant to be synched with a computer application like Outlook or Address Book, or with a cloud service for safekeeping. If you've been using your computer as recommended, your contacts are safe in one of those applications. Simply synch them back to your phone.
If you've not been using the phone as intended, and leaving your precious contacts without backup only on a phone--which can be lost, stolen, damaged, etc, then your contacts are gone and you've learned a very tough lesson.

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Hi bmfowler,
bookmarks are linked to your profile (irrespective of what FF version you are currently on) this profile should be left intact by an upgrade/downgrade.
First thing I would do would to be run -> %appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/ (standard profile location) to figure out whether the old profile (with the bookmarks) is still available. If so proceed with the
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile recovery].
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
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Contact List Problem.   I have duplicates on my iPhone. I turned off my Contact and selected "Delete Contacts" Most of the contacts were deleted but about 120 were left on my phone.   I've tried selecting individual contacts and deleting them, No Go.
Can anyone help?   How do I get rid of these contacts so I can re-synch my iPhone.

I have exactly the same problem on my ipad. It is happening on only some contacts but, as with you, when I delete one of the contacts on the ipad, the second ipad contact and the contact on the imac are also deleted. This is even the case when I have differentiated the two contacts on the ipad and can see the one I have deleted on the ipad is not the same one as is then deleted on the imac.

HT204150 Contacts were deleted from my iphone 5 and now are gone on icloud. Is there a way to find them from a previous icloud backup?

Contacts were deleted from my iphone 5 and now are gone on icloud. Is there a way to find them from a previous icloud backup?

You could try the approach outlined here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.

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like roaminggnome said you should see your contacts again once you sync with iTunes. if you used iCloud before, make sure contact sync is turned on and your contacts should be back.

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Check under Settings > iCloud to see if the Contacts switch is ON (green side showing). If it's already on, switch it off for 30-60 seconds, then back on again. Your contacts should start showing up shortly.

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Change your appleID back to the previous ID you used, and they should come back. If you want to remove that ID and switch back, make sure you choose the option to "Keep the contacts on the iPhone/iPad/iPod".
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Hi,
our CEO has an exchange account where he adds all his contacts. Now there are 2778 contacts.
For some reason, sometimes his contacts gets deleted and I guess, that it depends on one of his mobile devices. He has his Samsung S5 and Apple iPad mini which he uses all day long. And he has a S4 mini which is only a backup phone.
Is there something like a conflict rule on the exchange server which said: If here is a conflict, use the content on the mobile device to synchronize?
Or is there an option on the exchange server, which doesnt allow the mobile devices to delete all contacts or mails at the same time?
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Thomas

Hi ,
Based on my knowledge if we delete the contacts from outlook it will get deleted in active sync device and reversal.But it won't get deleted automatically.
Is there something like a conflict rule on the exchange server which said: If here is a conflict, use the
content on the mobile device to synchronize?
None of the contacts will be deleted due to multiple devices configured for a single account.
Or is there an option on the exchange server, which doesn't allow the mobile devices to delete all contacts or mails at the same time?
Based on my knowledge there is no such kind of option.
In exchange you can enable the mailbox auditing for the critical mailboxes to avoid such kind of issues and with the help of the audit logs you can able to find out who has deleted the mailbox items even you can track mailbox owner activities also.
Thanks & Regards S.Nithyanandham

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All of my contacts were gone.
All of my stored texts.
All of my stored voice mails.
And my phone was updated to 4G from 3G.
There was no warning that this would happen. Can anyone help?
Retrieving my contacts is the most troublesome part of this! I went into the AT/T store, and they said that Icloud was turned off on my phone, and I would need to call Apple directly. HELP!
Thanks.

Again, we took it to an AT/T store...which means that they checked our backup/ICloud...they said it had been turned off. This is so frustrating.
Any advice besides calling Apple?

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contacts are not part of the iPhone backup. Contacts are meant to be synched with a computer application like Outlook or Address Book, or with a cloud service for safekeeping. If you've been using your computer as recommended, your contacts are safe in one of those applications. Simply synch them back to your phone.
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Please read before going through with this procedure.
If you really want your contact back and you did not do another iCloud backap since you deleted some of your contacts, you can do a hard reboot on both devices with iClouded contacts by holding down the home and lock buttons on each of them for 10 seconds ignoring the slide to turn off thing. Make sure you have iCloud contact services off before doing so. You can then go through the whole set up process until you get up to the backup part. You then press to restore from an iCloud backup (make sure you choose the right backup for the right phone). If you didn't make an iCloud backup before the contact incident, you will have to use your two-month-old iTunes backups. Each phone should have their contacts the way they were from your last backup. You then go into Settings>iCloud>and turn off contacts. You then can choose if you want to keep your current contacts or not. Turn this off on both phones just incase you add another iCloud device to the mix later on. Now your contact lists are no longer linked (Caution: side effect may include lack of edit button). You may now add and delete contacts as you please without it happening on your other phone.
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I powered down my iPhone 4S because an app was bugging out. When I powered it back up, all of my contacts had been deleted. When I tried to see my contact list it told me there were "No Contacts" on this phone. In the "messages" app, each conversation is now paired with a phone-number and not each contact's name.
I did not have my contacts sync'd to my iTunes, or iCloud, or any other storage system.
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I think those contacts still in iphone database. So you can back up you iphone with itunes to get iphone database off your iphone. Then access the SQLite batabse.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766
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http://www.datarecoveryforiphone.com/

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Your other data (such as messages, your call history, etc.) and settings are stored in your backup, with the exception of email, which is stored on the email provider's server. Restoring your backup would transfer your other data and settings.
Are you trying to transfer your data from an old iPhone to a new one?

My contacts were deleted.

I had to restore my iPhone after my friend changed my passcode. After restoring, I restored the backup settings onto my iphone. When i went to look at my contacts, they were all deleted. is there a way to get them back?

The iPhone is designed to sync contact info with a supported application on your computer.
With Vista, this can be with Outlook 2003 or 2007, or with the address book used by Windows Mail - the name change for Outlook Express with Vista, with both applications included with Vista by Microsoft.
Although contact info is included or should be included with your iPhone's backup, it isn't a good idea to depend on your iPhone's backup alone for this data. If not restored when restoring your iPhone with iTunes from your iPhone's backup, I'm afraid your contact info is lost.
How do you survive without having your contact info available on your computer - at least for email addresses?
If you don't have Outlook 2003 or 2007 available, and you aren't current;y using the address book used by Windows Mail, I suggest you get acquainted with this address book app on your computer and start syncing your iPhone's address book with it. Keep a backup of Windows Mail address book for safe keeping, along with the backup you have for all other important data stored on your computer's hard drive in case of a partial or complete hard drive failure and for Windows users, constant virus, adware, and spyware concerns.

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